Technical Officer (Multistakeholder Engagement and Collaboration) [Open to internal and external applicants]

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With the funding support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Government of Indonesia, led by the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs and with technical support from UNDP and FAO is implementing a full-size project entitled “Strengthening sustainability in commodity and food systems, land restoration and land use governance through integrated landscape management for multiple benefits in Indonesia (FOLUR)”. The project aims to ensure sustainable value chains of oil palm, coffee, rice and cocoa through an application of a comprehensive land use approach linking biodiversity conservation, restoration, and production at scale. The project will support the country to address the above-mentioned development challenges through four areas of interventions: 1) Enabling environment for sustainable value chains and integrated landscape management; 2) Promotion of sustainable crop production practices and responsible value chains; 3) Conservation and restoration-rehabilitation of natural habitats; and 4) Knowledge management, coordination, collaboration and monitoring and evaluation The project aims for a transformational change in sustainable commodity and crop supply chains and land governance, leading to a reduction in loss of high conservation value and high carbon stock forests in five jurisdictions in the country: Aceh Province (target district: Central Aceh), North Sumatera Province (target district: Mandailing Natal), West Kalimantan Province (target district: Sanggau), South Sulawesi Province (target district: Luwu), and West Papua Province (target district: Sorong). The targeted commodities are oil palm, cocoa, rice, and coffee. In line with the GEF-7 FOLUR Impact Program, the project strategy is predicated on integrated landscape management approaches facilitated through multi-stakeholder collaboration in achieving genuine systems change that results in durable global environmental benefits and sustainable livelihoods for local communities both men and women. Duties and Responsibilities Reporting directly to National Project Manager and working closely with other technical project team, the Programme Manager for Natural Resources Management Cluster and the Global FOLUR team. Lead and facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration and inclusive stakeholder engagement at the national and subnational levels for FOLUR Project, across all commodities and across all the target jurisdictions, as well as at global level: Provide input to the National Project Manager on strategic approach to stakeholder engagement with governmental and non-governmental partners in best practices in sustainable and resilient production, conservation and restoration of degraded lands and forest areas, etc; Execute and implement multi-stakeholder collaboration and stakeholder engagement plan; Organize and facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration dialogues in accordance with the principles of the jurisdictional approach and integrated landscape management; Coordinating with the Private Sector Engagement Specialist, engage with private sector coalitions and other stakeholder groups, representing the project and developing new partnerships; Represent the project on landscape and commodity-level platforms, advocating for public- private-community partnerships on sustainable and resilient production, diversified livelihoods for local communities and conservation and restoration of degraded lands and forest areas; Coordinating with the M&E-Knowledge Management Specialist, provide strategic guidance in developing clear messaging for project stakeholders; Strengthen partnerships with leading national, regional and international institutions and expert groups; Increase cooperation with key national and subnational FOLUR related stakeholders and increase their capacities on taking a systemic and integrated approach in relation and when relevant to Sustainable Landscape Program Indonesia (SLPI); Visit project sites as and when required to build relationships with landscape teams and stakeholders, better understand their contexts and cultivate project progress on the ground; Participate and co-lead with the National Project Manager on various relevant learning sessions. For example, this could include surfacing best practices and lessons learnt from multistakeholder collaboration perspective, monitoring outcomes of project and from other initiatives that can be helpful to the project in achieving its goals and objectives. Effectively manage implementation of activities related to coffee, rice, cocoa and palm oil commodities to achieve project specified outputs, especially related to policy work and landscape (district) level activities. Support the implementation, coordination, engagement and monitoring of the landscape level project activities related to coffee, rice, cocoa and palm oil commodity, including working closely with NPSA staff and ICs needed to implement these activities; Support the National Project Manager with the implementation of relevant activities to achieve outputs under the four components of the FOLUR project; especially when they relate coffee, rice, cocoa and palm oil commodity and governance; Ensure that coffee, rice, cocoa and palm oil commodity related work at landscape level is carried out in close coordination with existing multistakeholder platforms; Work closely with respective partners, especially Ministry of Agriculture, in ensuring efficient implementation of the landscape level activities in Indonesia, in coordination with relevant UNDP and FAO Country Office focal points. Report to the National Project Manager on activity progress related to coffee, rice, cocoa and palm oil commodity at national as well as at landscape level; Support in the drafting of ToRs for related expert consultants, meetings and workshops; Identify critical issues, troubleshoot problems, and develop solutions to the overall process of landscape activities implementation where relevant; Support the National Project Manager in ensuring the effective monitoring of coffee, rice, cocoa and palm oil commodity related implementation work streams in accordance with the approved project work plan; Prepare high quality and result-oriented progress reports to be submitted to UNDP Country Office (i.e. pro